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" We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has made enormous progress in race relations, and it is still the best place on Earth to be a minority. "

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" What has always made our country special is that it doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you're going. Our job is to make certain the pathways are open to both our boys and our girls. "

Condoleezza Rice

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" We will have to stand up for and promote the power and promise of free markets and free peoples, and affirm that American preeminence safeguards rather than impedes global progress. "

Condoleezza Rice

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Stand Up

" My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones. "

" When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience. "

" Believe it or not, I loved acid rock in college - and I still do. "

" Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you're a woman, it's your fault - not theirs. "

" If you love Russia, you have to love Godunov. "

" I've been in enough positions to respect people with different views. "

" When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism. "

" Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea? "

" There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. "

" The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality. "

" My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote. "

Condoleezza Rice

Parents

Vote

" So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand. "

" What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday. "

" Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people. "

" We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq. "

Condoleezza Rice

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Back

" There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime. "

" Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives. "

" I think Americans are not guilty for 9/11; I think President Bush is not guilty for 9/11. "

" I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections. "

" The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. "

" People notice if you are black. People notice if you are female. We are certainly not either colorblind or gender-blind in this country, so I'm not suggesting that it isn't a factor. But I think in the final analysis, people will take a look at the positions, and they'll take a look at the issues. "

" I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body. "

" I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America. "

" It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted. "

" We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act. "

" There isn't a doubt that Iran constitutes the single most important single-country strategic challenge to the United States and to the kind of Middle East that we want to see. "

" One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us. "

" The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United States and did nothing about it - really? Do you think any president of the United States, if he had even an inkling there was going to be an attack, they wouldn't have moved heaven and earth to try to stop it? "